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PEBLEY R. GLASS, OF BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 1917.

Application filed December 22, 1913. Serial No. 808,183.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PERLEY R. GLASS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Heel-Seat-Wailing Machines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to machines for inserting fastenings and is hereinshown as embodied in a fastening inserting machine which inserts at a single operation all of the fastenings to be inserted in a single piece of work.

In the manufacture of boots and shoes, in which art the invention is especially useful, machines of the generaltype above referred to have been employed for the most part for attaching heels, such work presenting comparatively uniform conditions and being of such a nature that it could scarcely be performed satisfactorily by a machine which operated to insert the fastenings successively. The other fastening inserting operations upon boots and shoes have been performed almost exclusively, up to the present time, by machines which insert the fastenings successively, such machines being adapted to meet better the varying conditions of the work and to operate upon a greater number of shoes in a given time than the multiple fastening inserting machines or gang nailers hitherto known.

Besides the heel attaching operation, however. there is performed in the manufacture of the ordinary types of boots and shoes another fastening inserting operation which presents substantially the same conditions so far as uniformity of numbers and locations of the nails is concerned as the heel attaching operation. This operation is the attachment of the heel-seat. For this op eration there would be many advantages in employing a machine which would insert at one time all of the fastenings required, provided the machine could perform as much work as machines for successively inserting fastenings for this purpose.

An object of the presentv invention, therefore, is to provide an improved machine of the type above referred to which shall have especial utility for attaching the heel-seat ends of outsoles to the insoles and uppers, which shall have capacity for a quantity of work that will greatly exceed that performed by machines of other types, and which shall produce work of a quality superior to that produced by machines of other types.

Other objects of the invention are to provide a machine of this type which will operate upon a wide range of sizes of boots or shoes, and which will preferably not only attach the heel-seat but also perform other operations thereon, to provide improved mechanism for delivering automatically to the inserting mechanism a predetermined plurality of fastenings, to provide convenient and easily operated means for adjusting the machine to cause it to operate upon different ranges of sizes, by which a quick adjustment from one size range to another may be effected, and to provide a machine of this type in which the proper sequence of operations is positively insured, whereby danger of breakage of the machine and damage to the work is avoided.

Still other objects and features of the invention will appear from the following descriptionand claims when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a machine embodying the invention; the flexible nail conducting tubes being removed;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the machine as seen by an obseryer at the right of the machine;

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the side opposite to that shown in Fig.2, Fig. 3 being drawn to a larger scale and showing only the upper part of the machine;

Fig. 4 is a rear elevation ofthe upper part of the machine;

Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view. illustrating the means for effecting and the provisions for the various relative movements of the awls, drivers and nail loader;

Fig. 6 is a detail perspective of the driver operating mechanism and of the means for effecting the movement into operative position of the different sets of drivers;

Fig. 7 is a detail perspective of the awl operating mechanism and the means for efshowing the nail loader carrier and the means for insuring the use of the proper nail loader for each adjustment of the machine;

Fig. 9 is a detail perspective showing the sole laying mechanism and the means for operating it;

Fig. 10 is a detail perspective, partly in section. illu trating the nail supplying and nail separating means;

Fig. 11 is an enlarged detail perspective, partly in section. showing the construction of the raceway ends and the nail separators;

Fig. 12 is a longitudinal section along the main driving shaft showing the construction of the clutches and of the actuating mechanism;

Fig. 13 is an enlarged detail perspective showing the actuating mechanism for the sole laying mechanism and the connection between this mechanism and the nailing mechanism;

Fig. 14 is adetail elevation of a part of the mechanism shown in Fig. 13;

Fig. 15 (Sheet 7) is a plan view showing the heel-seat trimming mechanism;

Fig. 16 (Sheet 12) is a perspective detail showing the means for operating the heel trimmin mechanism;

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of one of the jack constructions;

Fig. 18 is a detail section along the line 6-6 of Fig. 17

Fig. 19 is a detail elevation of the other side of the jack construction shown in Fig. 17; and

Fig. 20 is a side elevation of the modified jack construction.

The frame of the machine comprises a standard 10 and a head 12, the principal 0perative parts of the machine being mounted in the head. The machine is intended especially for nailing heel-seats, that is, for attaching the heel-seat end of the outsole to the insole and upper, and in order that the machine may operate effectively upon shoes of a wide range of sizes provision is made for quick and easy adjustment of various parts whereby the machine may be adapted for nailing different successive ranges of sizes, the illustrated machine having capacity for dealing with sizes from 5 to 12 in three successive ranges of five sizes each, each of the half sizes being counted as a size.

The nails which attach the heel-seat are preferably driven simultaneously without changing the position of the work and therefore three gangs of nail drivers are provided in the illustrated machine, each gang being intended for use with five different sizes of shoes. These gangs of drivers, each composed of a number of drivers corresponding to the number of nails which it is desired to insert in the heel-seat to secure it firmly in position, are carried respectively by three driver plates or blocks 20, 22 and 24 which have formed in their upper. faces alined dove-tailed grooves 26 arranged to receive in succession the dove-tailed lower end of the driver operating plunger 28. The plunger 28 is provided with a rack 30 which is preferably located near a line passing through the center of the gang of drivers. The rack 30 meshes with a segment gear 32 upon a short shaft 34. Extending rearwardly from the hub of the gear 32 is an arm 36 to which is pivotally connected an adjustable link 38 carrying a cam roll 40 which enters a cam groove in a cam disk 42 upon a shaft 43. The link 38 is supported and guided in its movements by a second link 44 pivoted at 45 upon the machine frame.

The driver operating plunger 28 reciprocates in a vertically movable awl operating head or casing 46, the upper part of the plunger being shaped to fit the interior of the casing 46 and the lower end being some what smaller in one of its transverse dimensions so that it may enter one of the guides in a driver guide slide 48 arranged to slide through the casing 46 to bring its three guides and the driver blocks 20, 22 and 24, carried in said respective guides, into operative relation to the plunger 28. The slide 48 moves in stationary ways formed in brackets 56 and 58 upon opposite sides of the casing 46. Spring-pressed plungers 59 carried by the driver blocks enter sockets in the front wall of the slide 48 and hold the blocks yieldingly in their elevated positions, with the grooves 26 in alinement. The awls 60, of which there are three gangs, corresponding in numbers and arrangement to the three gangs of drivers, are carried in dovetailed plates 66, 68 and 70 which slide in arc-shaped ways 71 formed in a casing 72 carried by the machine frame. The Ways 71 are interrupted at a point substantially midway of their length to receive an awl-carrying slide 74 which travels in transverse guideways 76 arranged above the arc-shaped ways 71, the slide 74 having formed in that portion which extends into the path of travel of the plates 66, 68 and 70 a continuation of the ways 71 and being so dimensioned that it can sustain an awl-carrying plate and transfer the plate from its position in the ways 71 into position in the lower part of the awl-operating head or casing 46, the guideways 76 being extended into said caslng.

Automatic means is provided for moving the slide 74 to cause it to bring the selected awl-carrying plate with its awls into operative position in the lower part of the head 46. The illustrated means comprises a pusher bar 78 which is slotted to embrace and clear a vertical rock-shaft 112, hereintaaepoe after specifically described, this bar being arranged to slide in the machine frame and having formed on its front end a vertically extended dove-tailed guideway 80 which receives a dove-tail upon the rear end of the slide 74 to provide for the vertical movement of the slide 74 and the awls with respect to the pusher bar 78 during the awl driving movement of the slide 46. Pivotally connected to the rear end of the pusher bar '78 is a link 82 which is itself pivotally connected to a second link 84 pivoted at its opposite end upon the machine frame and carrying a cam roll 86 which enters a cam groove in the cam disk 88 upon the shaft 43.

The nails to be driven are delivered to suitable openings in a nail block 100 through which they pass into contact with the surface of the work and into which the drivers enter to drive the nails into the work. The nail block is provided with three sets of nail receiving openings which correspond in numbers and arrangement with the numbers and arrangement of the sets of drivers and awls which are to enter the openings. Although the nail block herein shown is formed in a single piece, it will be understood that the formation of the nail block in a single piece is not essential and that each of the three sets of nail receiving openings may be formed in separate blocks either connected together to move together or so arranged that one of the blocks will engage and push'another as it is moved. In order that the openings suited to the particular gang of drivers or awls which is to operate may be brought into position beneath the plunger 28, the nail block 100 is constructed and arranged to slide in ways in the machine frame to bring the diiierent sets of openings successively into position beneath the said plunger. To this end the block 100 is provided with lateral ribs 108 which enter grooves formed in the machine frame or in plates 109 attached to the machine frame, see Fig. 5. The shoe to be operated upon will be pressed up against the under side of the block 100 and on its under side beneath each set of nail receiving openings the block will preferably be shaped so that it will conform appr0Xi-- mately to the shape of the heel-seat end of the shoe pressed against it. Preferably the block will be provided upon its under side with a pad formed of some soft material such as leather or wood. or some soft metal, which will serve as a block against which the heel-seat trimming mechanism hereinafter to be described may operate.

Preferably a single means will be provided for moving the nail'block, the awls and drivers into their proper operative relations to each other. The illustrated means comprises a lever 110 attached to the "vertical rock-shaft 112, see Fig. 6. The lever 110 carries a segment rack 114 which meshes the nail block into position beneath the with a straight rack 116 upon the back side of the driver guide slide 48. Turning of the lever with the rock-shaft 112 will therefore cause the slide 48 to move across the front of the machine to bring the driver blocks 20, 22 and 24 successively into operative relation to the plunger 28.

Bolted to the under side of the lever 110 are holders 118 and 120 in which are adjustably confined pushers 122, 124 for the awl carrying plates, the pusher 122 engaging the awl plate 66 and the pusher 124.cngaging the awl plate 70. The middle plate 68 is engaged by one or the other of the plates 66 and 70.

A second segment rack 126 mounted upon. arms 127 rigidly connected to the rock-shaft 112 engages a straight rack 113 formed upon the rear face of the nail block 100 and moves said nail block across the front of the machine simultaneously with the movement of the driver guide slide 48. It will thus be seen that the turning of the lever 110 to effect the movement of the slide 48 causes the simultaneous movement of the awl plates 66, 68 and and the nail block 100 and therefore brings the proper set of openings in ang of drivers intended to enter the openings, and brings that one of the plates 66, 68 and 70 which carries the appropriate set of awls into such position in the slide 74 that on the next forward movement of the pusher bar 78 the aWls will be brought into opera tive position in the lower part of the head 46. The lever 110 is locked in its different positions of adjustment by means of a plunger 128 upon one end of a latch member 130 pivoted upon the handle of the said lever, theplunger being maintained yield.

ingly in its lowermost position by a suitable spring arranged between the handle part of the latch member and the handle part of the lever.

The plunger 128 is arranged to enter openings 134 in an arc-shaped plate 135 extending along the path of movement of the lever 110, there being, one opening for each of the gangs of awls and drivers so located that the lever 110 will be locked when'the awls drivers and nail block are in their proper positions of adjustment. The movement of the head or casing 46 to force the awls into the work is effected by operative connections with a cam disk 136 upon the shaft 43, these connections comprising a forked arm 138 of a lever fulcrumed upon a shaft 140 confined in the machine frame. The forked arm 138 receives between its members a block 144 pivoted between ears 146 extending rearwardly from the casing or head 46, these cars being formed upon the lower pair of guiding extensions 148 of the casing 46, which slide upon vertical" guide rods 150. The other arm 152 of this lever is pivotally connected to a link 154 which carries a cam roll 156 which enters a cam groove 158 in the cam disk 136. The link 154is guided in its lever operating movements by a second link 159 pivoted at one end between ears 161 upon the machine frame and at its other end between the two parts of the forked rearward end of the link 154.

The nails are delivered to the openings in the nail block 100 by a nail loader 162, there being one of these nail loaders for each of the three size ranges so that the openings in the nail loader will register properly with the openings in the nail block. As shown particularly in Fig. 8 the nail loader 162 for the particular size range which is to be operated upon is adapted to be slipped into the nail loader carrier 163 when the nail block has been adjusted to bring the set of nail receiving openings for that size range into proper position beneath the nail loader carrier 163. To prevent the insertion of a nail loader for a different size range the nail block 100 is provided with grooves 164 so located with respect to two slots 165 and 166 that the groove for any particular size range registers with one or the other of the said slots 165, 166 when the nail block has been adjusted into proper nail receiving position and the groove for a particular size range will receive a pin 167 upon the nail loader for that size range but is so located that the pin 167 for the nail loader of another size range will be offset with respect to said groove so that said nail loader cannot be inserted in the nail loader carrier.

The nail loader carrier 163 is provided with ribs 168 which enter grooves 169 in the front end of the awl carrying slide 74, this rib and groove connection permitting the awl carrier to move up and down without disturbing the connection between the awl carrier and the nail loader. The nail loader is thus moved between nail receiving position and nail delivering position by the movement of the awl carrying slide 74 to carry the awls into and out of operative position below the lower part of the casing 46. The nails are retained in the loader 162 until the loader comes into delivering position by a retaining plate 170, yieldingly held in its retaining position by springs 171.

In Fig. 5 the retaining plate 170 is shown in the position in which its openings register with the openings in the nail loader 162, being brought into this position as the nail loader 162 is retracted into nail delivering position by the engagement of a shoulder 172 upon said plate with the front edge of the nail block 100, the lug upon the plate 17 0 upon which this shoulder 17 2 is formed traveling in a groove 173 in the upper face of one of the nail block guides.

The means for supplying nails to the nail loader, when it is in fastening receiving position, comprises a plurality of flexible nail tubes 268, one for each nail opening in the nail loader, these tubes serving to guide the nails from a corresponding plurality of raceways 270 into short fixed tubes 271 inserted in openings in a plate 272 arranged to register with the corresponding openings in the nail loader when the nail loader is in nail receiving position. Cotiperating with each of the raceways is a separator 274 having a yielding connection with a common separator bar 276, through which all of the separators are operated simultaneously to deliver nails to the tubes 268. The means for operating the separator bar comprises a lever 278 fulcrumed at 280 upon a bracket carried by the machine frame, this lever being forked at its upper end and receiving between the members of said forked end a block 281 pivoted upon the separator bar 276.

The lower end of the lever 278 carries a cam roll 282 which travels in an inclined cam groove formed by plates 283 attached to the front face of the awl operating head or casing 46. The separators are thus operated to separate a nail from each of the raceways as the awl operating head or casing returns to its uppermost position after the awls have been forced into the work. These nails then drop down through the flexible tubes 268 and rest upon a retaining plate 284 having a sliding connection with the plate 272. The plate 284 is provided with nail delivering openings which may be brought into register with the short tubes 271 so as to permit the nails to drop into the openings in the nail loader 162. The plate is, however, normally held in such position that its openings are out of register with the tubes 271 by means of a spring 285 connected at its forwaro end to a stud upon the plate 284 and at its rearward end to a stud on the plate 272. As the nail loader carrier comes forward into nail receiving position, its upwardly projecting rear end strikes the rear end of the plate 284 and moves the plate into such position that its openings will come into register simultaneously with the openings in the tubes 271 and the openings in the loader 162, thereby permitting the nails to drop into the nail loader.

The raceways are supplied with nails by segmental lifting plates 286, one for each raceway, which oscillate in a nail pot or holder 288, alining guides 287 being provided at the upper end of the path of travel of each plate. The plates 286 pass through openings in the bottom 290 of the nail pot and are carried upon arms 292 loosely mounted upon the rock-shaft 294. Rigidly attached to the rock-shaft is an arm 296 to which is adjustably connected a rod 298,

the arm 296 being provided with a slot whereby the connection between the rod 298 and the arm ma be moved toward or away from the rock-s aft 294. The rod 298 receives at its lower end a crank pin upon a disk 304 upon a short shaft 306. The shaft 306 is driven by a worm and gear connection to a short shaft 307 which is itself connectcd by bevel gears 308 309 to a thlrd short shaft 310. A belt pulley 311 upon the shaft 310 may be COHIIBClSLd to the source of power so that the nail supplying mechanism may be constantly operated.

The connections between the shaft 294 and the lifting plates 286 comprise an arm 312 rigidly attached to the shaft 294, the arm 312 having in its end a spring-pressed catch 316 which normally enters a notch 318 in a plate 320 on the arm 292. The notch 318 has inclined walls and the catch 316 has inclined sides, the inclination being such that if the lifting plate 286 in its upward movement meets an obstacle, such as a misplaced nail, the catch 316 will slip out of the notch 318 and permit the plate to drop back to its lowermost position. The dropping of the lifting plates 286 in the manner just described tends to stir up the nails in the nail pot. Each lifting plate is provided 1n its.

upper edge with a raceway section which forms a continuation of one of the race- Ways 270 when the lifting plate is in its uppermost position. The raceways 270 are thus constantly kept supplied with nails for the action of the separator blades 274.

As hereinabove stated, mechanism is preferably provided for trimming the heel-seat of the boot or shoe to be operated upon while the heel-seat is in position to be nailed. As already pointed out, the under side of the nail block 100 beneath each of the sets of nail receiving openings is shaped to fit the usual convex heel-seat end of the shoe. The heel-seat is therefore laid upon the shoe in advance of the nailing operation. being pressed up against the under side of the nail block, or against the pad of soft material which is preferably provided on the under side of the nail block, by work support operating mechanism hereinafter to be described. While the shoe and heel-seat are thus clamped in sole laying and nail receiving position the heel-seat is preferably trimmed by mechanism now to be described.

The illustrated trimming mechanism comprises a flexible knife 330 shaped to fit about the counter portion of the upper. This knife is carried by a knife carrier 332 provided with ears 334 which slide upon inclined guide rods 336 carried by brackets 338 bolted to the front of the standard 10. The knife is adapted to fit itself automatically to shoes of varying sizes and shapes and" to this end it is supported at the rear by a plunger 340 which enters a socket 342 in the carrier 332, the plunger being limited the socket 342 and the bottom of a socket in the. plunger 340 is a spring 348 which presses the plunger normally toward the forward limit of its movement.

For convenience in removing the lmife for grinding or for replacement by another knife, the plunger 340 is provided with a socket 350 1nto which a, stem 352 attached to the rear end of the knife is adaptedto be inserted, this stem being provided with an annular groove 354 into which a sprin pressed catch 356 is adapted to enterto ho d the stem in the socket. -The catch maybe withdrawn from looking osition by means of a'handle 358. Ball-en ed studs 360 upon the sides of the knife are sockets in the outer ends of adjustable spring-pressed plungers 362 guided in 332 to swing about vertical axes.

when the knife is in inoperative position the plungers 362 will be substantially in the position shown in Fig. 15. When a shoe is inserted within the knife and the knife is pressed back against the action of the spring 348, the plungers 362 will be turned about their axes 366 in such manner that they will tend to press the sides of the knife against the sides of the upper and thus fit the knife closely to the outline of the shoe.

To protect the upper from being marred by the knife, a U-shaped piece of protecting material 368 is preferably provided which is carried by a metallic strip 370 coiled at'its ends to form spiral springs 372 which, as they uncoil, permit the protector to move back into the knife 330 as the shoe is brought into operative position beneath the nail block 100. It- Will be noted that the guide rods 336 are inclined so that as the knife carrier 332 move up during the trimming operation the knife will travel at an inclination to the surface of the sole to be trimmed, thus trimming the sole approximately to the slant of the heel which is to be attached to the shoe.

The means for moving the carrier 332 to effect the trimming operation comprises a toggle 374, see Fig. 2, having one link pivotally connected at 376 to the carrier 332 and the other link pivotally connected at 378 to the standard 10. An adjustable rod 380 is pivotally connected at one end to the knee joint of the toggle 374 and at its other end is provided with an eccentric strap 382 which surrounds an eccentric 384 upon the shaft 43.

As hereinabove suggested, the heel end of thesole is laid as the work is pressed into Surrounding the I osition to receive the heel-seat nails.

eans may also be provided for laying the forepart of the sole, and in the illustrated embodiment of the invention a suitable means for this purpose is shown. The illustrated means comprises a carrier 386 for a sole pressing pad 388, this carrier being provided with trunnions 390 received in slots 392 in brackets 394'clamped upon vertical rods 396 extending from the head of the machine to the base. The rods 396 have other functions besides supporting these brackets, among which is that of strengthening and stiffening the frame of the machine so that it will resist the strains which come upon it during the nailing and sole laying operations. The frame-stiffening mechanism disclosed herein is not claimed in this application but is disclosed and claimed in applicants copending divisional application Serial No. 114,995, filed August 15, 1916.

Attached to the sides of the pad holder 386 at its rear-are adjustable slotted arms 398 which receive within their slots headed studs 400 upon the brackets 394. These arms 398 and the slots 392 in the brackets 394 serve to guide the pad holder during its downward movement and to cause it to turn from the position shown in Fig. 2 to the position shown in Fig. 9. The movements of 1 into sleeves 408 clamped upon rods 410 ar ranged to slide vertically in guides 412 upon the front of the machine frame. The rods 410 are connected at their upper ends to a cross-head 414 provided with a horizontal slot which receives a sliding block 416 upon the crank pin 418 of the crank disk 402.

The crank disk 402 is carried upon the front end of a horizontal shaft 420 which carries at its rear end a bevel gear 422. The shaft 420 receives its motion from a bevel pinion 424 upon an oblique shaft 426 which is connected by bevel gears 428, 430, to a horizcntal shaft 432 extending at right angles to the shaft 420. A gear wheel 434 upon the horizontal shaft 432 is driven by a pinion 436 attached to a sleeve 438 upon the driving shaft 440. 'The sleeve 438 may be clutched to the loose driving pulley 442 by suitable clutch mechanism hereinafter to be described. The gearing. between the pulley 442 and the crank disk 402 is such that it takes two rotations of the pulley 442 to move the sole laying pad holder 386 into its operative sole laying position and two more rotations of the pulley 442 to restore it to its inoperative position.

The forepart sole laying mechanism is arranged to be operated either independently or after an operation of the nailing mechanism. To this end independent means are provided for clutching the nailing mechanism and the forepart sole laying mechanism to the driving pulley 442. The means for connecting the nailing mechanism to the -driving pulley 442 comprises a cone clutch clutch member. The conical clutching por-' tion 452 of the clutch member 444 is preferably formed of some good friction material, such as cork, and is adapted to engage a conical surface 454 upon the inside of the pulley 442. The clutch member 444 is preferably provided also with a conical surface 456 formed of similar friction material adapted to engage corresponding surfaces upon a brake member 458 when the clutch is in its released position.

The clutch member 444 is normally held inv clutching position by a spring 460 which surrounds the shaft and bears at one end against a shoulder formed upon a ring 461 threaded upon the sleeve 446 and at its other end-against a shoulder formed upon a sec ond ring threaded upon another sleeve 462 rigidly attached to the shaft 440. The clutch member 444 is held out of its clutching relation to the pulley 442 by means of a lever 464 fulcrumed at 466 upon the machine frame and forked at its upper end. Each of the fork members 468 of the lever 464 is pro- V ded with a slot 470 which receives a trun- 111011 472 upon a ring 474 arranged to turn upon the sleeve 446.

The lever 464 is provided with a laterally extending lug 476 which is normally en gaged by a lug 478 upon a link 480 pivot ally connected to the lower end of a lever 482 fulcrumed at 484 upon the machine frame. When the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 12 the link 480 causes the lever 464 to hold the clutch member 444 outof clutching relation to the pulley 442. The link 480 is normally held in such position that the lug 478 will remain in engagement with the lug 476 by means of a springpressed plunger 486 which is normally maintained at the uppermost limit of its movement by a spring 488. The link 480 may be moved out of its operative clutch releasing relation to the lever 464 by connections with a treadle 490 in the base of the machine. These connections comprise a rod 492 pivotally connected at its lower end to the treadle 490 and having pivoted to its enlarged upper end 494 a hook member or latch member 496, the hook portion 498 of which is adapted to engage a catch. 

